Sentences with phrase «giant moa»
We carry on to Curio Bay in the Catlins, an unspoiled scenic region of coast, rivers and podocarp forest — once an area inhabited by the giant Moa (largest bird in the world — now extinct).
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Big extinct birds such as the giant moa, thunderbirds and elephant birds all left eggshells behind them.
Oskam and Bunce successfully isolated mitochondrial DNA from the eggshells of several extinct megafauna, including the giant moa of New Zealand and a 19,000 - year - old emu from Australia.
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Here you can find the bones of moa - nalo, the giant flightless ducks that once ruled Hawaii.
To explain the MOA results, some theorists guessed that many of the purported rogue giant planets were actually free - floating failed stars called brown dwarfs — intermediate objects that straddle the hazy line between being a planet and a sun.
The moas present a particularly interesting case, researchers say, because they were the last of the giant species to vanish, and they did so recently, when a changing climate was no longer a factor.
Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.
Scientists have long argued about what caused the extinction of many species of megafauna — giant animals including mammoths, mastodons, and moas — beginning between 9000 and 13,000 years ago, when humans began to spread around the world.
On Thursday, stock trading expert Ronnie Moas noted similarities between Bitcoin's performance and that of Amazon's stock, suggesting the run - up to 2033 will see BTC mimic the giant's $ 750 billion successes.
Though many species — such as the moa, a giant flightless bird, and the Haast's eagle, with its impressive 10 - foot wing span — have gone extinct since European settlers arrived, countless others remain, such as the kakapo, the world's heaviest parrot (which is also flightless) and the tuatara, a reptile that was a contemporary of the dinosaurs and is now the last of its kind.